Glove-buttoner



(No Model) J. W. PARTRIDGE. Glove Buttoner.

No. 230,196. Patented July 20,1880.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C NITED STATES PATENT()FFICE.

JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GLOVE-BUTTONERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.230,196, dated July 20, 1880. I

I Application filed June 9, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Glove-Buttoners, of which the following is aspecification.

This improvement relates to that class of glove-buttoners known asdouble glove-buttoners-t'. 6., those having two loops adapted forbuttoning purposes; and the nature and objects of theimprovement arefully described below.

In theaccom pan yin g drawin gs,in which similar letters ofv referenceindicate like parts, Figure 1 is a View of my improved glove-buttoner.Fig. 2 is a "iew of the same with the buttoning loops spread by pressingthe thumb and finger upon the ball and central loop.

The glove-buttoner consists of a ball, a, aml a single piece of wire,whose free ends are secured in said ball. This wire is bent, as shown inthe drawings, to form two buttoning-loops, b b, and the small centralloop, 0, all of the shape shown.

The central support, a, may be a ball, as shown, or it may vary somewhatfrom a perfectly spherical shape, but must be capable of holdingsecurely the ends of the wire, and may be ornamented in any manner.

The central loop, 0, mayhave a safety-chain attached to it.

By means of the central loop, 0, and the crossing-wires, which, crossingat x and a,

form a diamond-shaped central opening, a most excellent spring isprovided, so that when the buttoning-loops bl) are desired to beenlarged the thumb and finger may be placed upon the ball a and loop 0,as in Fi 2, which are thus pressed together, guided by the crossingwires, and the buttoning-loops spread to receive a large button. Ofcourse, asmall button requires little or no enlarge ment of the loops.

By means ofthe peculiar shape of this buttoner, and especially onaccount of the wire crossing and bracing atx' 3 great stiffness andstrength are secured even in a line wire. These are important advantagesin a glovebuttoner, where it is desirable to use as fine wire aspossible.

The simplicity of the device allows it to be made at slight expense.

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The hereinbefore-descri bed improveddouble glove-buttoner, constructed of a piece of wire whose free endsare secured in the ball a and bent, as shown and described, to form thebuttoning-loops b and I), and central elastic or spring portion, for thepurposes set forth.

J OHN W. PARTRIDGE.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, GEORGE V. MALLON.

